Chinese art

• Chinese Art - has varied throughout its ancient history,

  divided into periods by the ruling dynasties of China

  and changing technology.
• Chinese art - encompasses fine arts, folk arts and

  performance arts.
• Different forms of art have been influenced by great

  philosophers, teachers, religious figures and even

  political leaders.
• Song dynasty - poetry was marked by a lyric poetry known as Ci (詞) which expressed feelings of desire, often in an adopted persona.
• Yuan dynasty - In the _ _, painting by the Chinese painter Zhao Mengfu (趙孟頫) greatly influenced later Chinese landscape painting, and the _ _ opera became a variant of Chinese opera which continues today as Cantonese opera.
• Gongbi means "meticulous", the rich colours and details in the

  picture are its main features, its content mainly depicts portraits or narratives.
• Xieyi means 'freehand', its form is often exaggerated

  and unreal, with an emphasis on the author's emotional expression and usually used in depicting landscapes.
• Ci known as lyric poetry which

  means expressed feelings of

  desire.\
• Song Dynasty developed the oldest extant form of chinese

  opera called Kunqu.
• Porcelain - is a kind of ceramics made from kaolin at high temperature. The earliest ceramics in China appeared in the Shang Dynasty (c.1600-1046 BCE).
• Jade - was used as an ornament or sacrificial

  utensils. The earliest Chinese carved-jade object

  appeared in the Hemudu culture in the early Neolithic period (about 3500–2000 BCE).
• A landscape paintings, with a

  blurred outlines and mountain

  contours which means distance

  through an impressionistic

  treatment of natural phenomena.